# Function that can strip the times from a handful of the gmail timestamps I have encountered

strpGMailTime.py

def strpMailTime(timestamp):
	if len(timestamp) < 27:
		# Ex. '5 Nov 2018 12:05:07 -0500' len 25
		#    '28 Oct 2019 03:33:57 -0400' len 26
		dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(timestamp, "%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
	elif len(timestamp) > 29 and len(timestamp) < 32:
		# 'Fri, 6 Dec 2019 15:22:49 +0000' len 30
		# 'Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:19:26 +0000' len 31
		dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(timestamp, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
	elif len(timestamp) > 35 and len(timestamp) < 39:
		# 'Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:17:40 -0400 (EDT)' len 36
		# 'Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:17:46 -0500 (EST)' len 37
		# 'Thu, 16 May 2019 12:48:17 +0200 (CEST)' len 38
		# Strip the timezone parens because datetime can't handle them...
		paren = timestamp.find( '(' )
		if paren != -1:
			timestamp = timestamp[:paren-1]
		print(timestamp)
		dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(timestamp, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
	return dt